The cloud is actually just a server that belongs to someone else.
This is what John Matze, boss and founder of the legal alternative social network Parler, has to learn the hard way: On Sunday, Amazon's cloud hosting subsidiary AWS threw Parler off its servers without further ado and terminated the hosting contract for violating the usage guidelines.
Because on Parler, supporters of the still-US President Donald Trump had planned to storm the US Parliament in the days before January 6th and had violent fantasies: the more extreme Trump fans wanted to hang, shoot, slay all opponents of the Democratic Party, especially enemy images like Nancy Pelosi, but also the former Trump supporter and US Vice President Mike Pence.
But not only John Matze now has to internalize the matter with the other's server, but also his users.
Because Parler, it turns out, was programmed very sloppily from an IT security perspective.